DonFig wrote:Tramp wrote:
It is an interesting verison. The only problem I had with the actual War Within design for him though, is that you broke his caterpillar treads on his arms for the arms to emerge. That is probalby one of my biggest pet peaves because it really breaks all laws fo physics. Caterpillar treads are a continuous belt. If you break that belt, the treads flop open and fall off. They need to be kept intact. IF you could figure out a way to keep that over-all look without compromising the integrity of the capterpillar treads, it would be perfect.
it's been done lots of times before, G1 Scavenger, Bonecrusher, Warpath, Blitzwing? hell, even Brawl/Devastator in the movie does it.. all their treads break in transformation.
Yeah, I know they do, That doesn't make it any less impossible and just poor design on their part. If I had my way, they would all get redesigns to correct that flaw. And, I'm not really sure movie Brawl's treads do break. I know on the toy they do, but in the movie itself, it looks like the entire tread assemblies movie up onto his shoulders and back. It doesn't look like they break at all, and I didn't notice any part of his treads on his legs like on the toy either.
but I get you, this is why I did the first Titanium Megatron have a continious tread for his leg, my initial design was for him to have actual working rubber treads, with joints like Armada Scavenger's arm. but that would have proved too costly.
I think there could have been another solution, possibly be having the arms come out from between the front treads and the body so that the treads are attached at the shoulders, similar, but not the same as Megatron. Keeping the same horizontal position, but slid out when he transformed. The other option would be to do similar
Armada Megatron and have the arms flip out and around from the side of the tread housing, and latch into place sandwiching the treads above the elbow. That would keep the front treads intact, but locked in place in robot mode.
On a side note, why did you change Kup's design from his G1 design? His existing G1 design was already a Cybertronian mode, so he really didn't need a new "pre-Earth mode" design. Don't get me wrong, it looked cool, but it seemed a bit unnecessary. All in all it is one of my favorite series though. And, I loved the "Elita-1 sexy silhoette" mudflaps on Prime. Very nice touch.
WW happened a long time ago.I figured back in the days, Kup was also a kind of 'Turbo revvin young punk' himself.
but the transformation's the same, it's just reversed.
and besides, Transformers change their bodies all the time. even more often nowadays. I did'nt think it's nescessary for Armada Galvatron to changed back into Megatron in Energon and again in Cybertron. just so he can change back to Galvatron again.
Yeah, it just seemed wierd because, even in
War Within, he was already an "old coot" spouting off his wisdom and experience, and bickering with Ironhide, the other old-timer.
Well, goodness! It sure has been a long while since you last visited this place.
